We must make an attempt to purify and ennoble the thoughts that come to our mind. When thoughts come surging to your mind, you should spend at least a few minutes enquiring whether such thoughts are good or bad, and whether they are for the good of your country, and whether they are going to be helpful or not to the community around you...If they are bad thoughts, you must immediately put them aside; and if they are good, you must make an attempt to promote them. When a thorny plant is seen, it is removed the moment it is recognized as a thorny plant; but when a good fruit tree comes up, we try to take care of it and promote its growth. In the same manner, in the field of your heart, as soon as bad ideas sprout, you must pull them out and throw them away. As the seeds grow into a big tree, man also must try to grow and become Madhava (God) ultimately. For both these paths, our own qualities have the basic responsibility. Whether in lifeless matter or in living matter, the promotion of good qualities will depend on the way in which you promote and nurture those qualities.

- Summer Course, 1976.

A heart saturated with love of God can never entertain thoughts of violence. - Baba